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Peter T. Breuer wrote:


> No they are not. That's what I just said. Redhat executables won't run
> on debian (or any other distro). It's not a question of them running
> wrongly. They won't run, period. They won't execute the first statement
> after the open braces of main(). The binary format produced by their
> compiler is incompatible .. it won't link correctly with other
> libraries. Sure, it's the same machine code. Just the order is
> different :-).

Not to be contrary, but when I was running Debian (I've switched to RH7..), I 
definately downloaded a couple of packages made for Redhat (even packaged in 
RPM - this was before I learned to compile) and they ran just fine on Debian.

I'm a little new to Linux still (a little over year), but not to computers.  
Why would Debian and Linux have different binary formats?  They use the same 
kernel (so they support ELF binaries), come with (and presumably use) gcc, 
and offer packages compiled against an i386. Providing they are running on 
the same architecture, they should be, if not 100%, at least close to that, 
compatible.

In fact, from Debian's website:
3.2 How compatible is Debian with other distributions of Linux?

Debian developers communicate with other Linux distribution creators in an 
effort to maintain binary compatibility across Linux distributions. Most 
commercial Linux products run as well under Debian as they do on the system 
upon which they were built. 


Not trying to be argumentative, just curious...
Steve


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